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 euening-tide.

Avesprer. To draw towards euening, to grow neere night.

Il Avesprit. Th' euening approches; it growes almost, or it drawes towards, night.

Avet: m. A Fyrre tree.

Avette. A little Bee.

Aveu. Seeke Adveu. Aveuëment: m. A view; the first appearance, representation, or comming in sight of.

Aveugle: com. Blind, sightlesse, without eyes, depriued of sight, or of his eyes; also, ignorant, or in an errour.  Il en parle comme vn aveugle de couleurs. Hee speakes of it like a blind man of colours; viz. ignorantly, at randome, he knowes not what.  Vn aveugle meine l'autre en la fosse: Prov. An ignorant Pastor leads an ignorant sheepe headlong into hell.  Vn borgne est Roy au païs des aveugles: Prov. An ordinarie scholler is held a great Doctor by the ignorant multitude; and a meere swaggerer a tall souldiour by women, and children.

Aveuglemént: m. Blindnesse, darkenesse, want of sight; also, ignorance, errour; also, a blinding of the eyes, a darkening of the vnderstanding.

Aveugler. To blind, hudwinke, depriue of eyes, or sight.

Aveugleté: f. Blindnesse; as Aveuglement. Aveuglette. à Aveuglettes. Blindly, blindfold, in ignorance, at randome.

Aufegue: f. (A kind of) pale-red wheat.

Auge: m. A trough; also, a manger; also, a Plaisterers tray.  C'est vn porc à l'auge. He commonly feeds till he be readie to burst withall.

Augée: f. A trough-full, manger-full, or trayfull of.

Auget: m. A little trough, manger, or tray.

Augibis. (The name of) a grape, whereof an excellent raisin is made.

Augive: f. An ogiue; a wreath, circlet, round band, in Architecture.  Branches d'augives. Branches ogiued; or, limmes with ogiues.

Augmentatif: m. iue: f. Augmentatiue; able, fit, or easie, to increase.

Augmentation: f. Augmentation, increase; amplification; an increasing, augmenting; amplifying.

Augmentateur. An increasor, augmentor; inlarger, amplifier.

Augmenté: m. ée: f. Augmented, increased; inlarged, amplified.

Augmenter. To augment, increase; amplifie, inlarge.

Augué. as Hieble; Wallwort: ¶Langued. Augure: m. Diuination, soothsaying, or coniecture of things to come, by birds; also, a fore token, presage, prophecie, forewarning.

Augurement: m. A diuining, soothsaying, augurising.

Augustins. The Austine Friers; or blacke Friers, of the order of S. Austine.

Au-guy-l'an-neuf. The voyce of country people begging small presents, or new-yeares-gifts, in Christmas; (An ancient tearme of reioycing, deriued from the Druides; who were woont, the first of Januarie, to goe vnto the woods, where hauing sacrificed, and banqueted togethet, they gathered Misletow, esteeming it excellent to make beasts fruitfull, and most soueraigne against all poison.) s'Aviander. To feed, or victuall himselfe.

Avictuaillé: m. ée: f. Victualed; furnished with, prouided of, victuals.

Avictuaillement. A victualling.

Avictuailler. To victuall; to furnish, or store, with victuals.

Avide: com. Greedie, couetous, hungrie, rauenous, gluttenous, vnsatiable; eagar, desirous.

Avidement. Greedily, hungrily, eagarly, rauenously.

Avidité: f. Greedinesse, couetousnesse; extreame lust, ardent affection, eagar desire.

Avier. To set in the way; also, as Aviver. Avignon. vent A. as Aguyon. Avigouri: m. ie: f. Vigorous, lustie, able, strong; also, enabled; made lustie, strong, vigorous.

Avilé: m. ée: f. Imbased, disesteemed, made vile; grown cheape, fallen in price.

Avilener. To disgrace, dishonest, or do a villanie vnto.

Aviler. To despise, disesteeme; imbase, make vile, or cheape; to pull downe the price of, to bring to a low price.

Avili: m. ie: f. as Avilé. Au[*typo for v?]ilier. To fill vp wine vessels, which by working haue eiected part of their liquor.

Avilissement: m. An imbasing, disgracing, disesteeming

Avillonné. for Environné; ¶Poictevin; also, affronted; vexed, molested, harried. Avillonnement: m. An affronting; vexing, harrying, molesting.

Avillonner. To affront; vex, harrie, trouble, molest.

Aviné: m. ée: f. That hath taken too much wine; also, giuen to drinking of wine; also, winie; or tasting like wine; or, turned into the nature of wine; also, filled, or seasoned, with wine.

Aviner vn vaisseau. To fill, or season, a vessell with wine.

Aujourd'huy. To day; this day; also, now, at this time.  Aujourd'huy caissier, demain cassé: Prov. Aujourd'huy en chere, demain en biere: Prov. Aujourd'huy facteur, demain fracteur: Prov. Aujourd'huy marchant, demain meschant: Prov. Aujourd'huy marié, demain marri: Prov. Aujourd'huy monsieur, demain moucheur: Pro. Aujourd'huy Roy, demain de rien: Prov. Aujourd'huy Seigneur, demain singeord: Prov. Aujourd'huy Thresorier, demain tresarriere: A Prouerbe expounded, as all the rest, elsewhere.

Aviron: m. An oare, or skull.

Avironner. To row with oares; (an old word.)

Avis. Looke Advis. Avisé: m. ée: f. Aduised, warie, considerate, heedfull, discreet, circumspect; also, tould, warned, informed, hauing notice, or intelligence of.

Avisement: m. Aduisement; heed, warinesse, forecasting, discretion, circumspection, consideration; also, an aduising, warning, telling, informing.

Avisément. as Advisément.

Aviser. To marke, heed, see, looke to, attend vnto, regard with circumspection; to consider, aduise of, take aduice on; to thinke, imagine, iudge; also, to aduise, counsell, warne, tell, informe, do to wit, giue to vnderstand. On y avisera. We will thinke of it; we will consider, or see, what may be done in it. De tout s'avise à qui pain faut: Prov. Hunger makes men industrious; want makes them looke narrowly, and throughly, about them. On s'avise tard en mourant: Prov. When death ap-*